Developing Advanced Skillset & Fine Form – A Professional Turning Intensive
with Matt Monaco
Full-time, in-house trade & traditional woodturner, educator, and professional craftsman Matt Monaco, will introduce you to a range of philosophy, application, and understanding while sharing the overall value in developing a skillset & cutting execution—along with sharing the finest methods of acquiring advanced tool control, and finesse in Woodturning.
Through focused, dedicated practice, using a wide range of traditional woodturning tools and techniques, students will learn to develop and refine advanced muscle memory, and mastery, as either seriously developing, or career oriented professional craftspeople in a personalized manner; to account for long term success in woodturning, within the context of traditionally turned craft as a Fine Art.
This course will emphasize, share, and encourage the incredible value in learning to sharpen & shape tools effectively, with high quality for excellent results at the lathe. By way of simple to advanced modifications corresponding to specific applications with many of woodturning’s most valuable tools, students will improve the function of broadening the depth & overall quality of items one can turn, as well as the confidence and aesthetic in one’s own process, and develop an eye for contemporary, and traditional forms at the lathe.
You will learn to easily dispel the often mystified, confuted knowledge of grain orientation to cut remarkably cleaner, to entirely tear out free exterior & interior surfaces, as well as the art of practicing for efficiency, and why the development, and continuity of one’s own expression of the craft does not require gimmicks, or woodworking dogma to account for gaining advanced insight, personal inspiration, or an inability to allow oneself to begin mastering fine craft of turning.
This course will allow you gain a fresh approach, and garner new insight to mastering the craft directly from a seasoned, time-served, qualified professional woodturner who has over 20 years, countless thousands of hours spent at the lathe, along with both wholesale, retail, interior design and in-house trade experience.
As one of the very few trained & apprenticed woodturners in both the field, trade, and industry, Matt Monaco will continue to be a leader in the craft’s foreseeable future.
Note: This course is recommended for intermediate to advanced woodturners only.
Cutting tear-out free exterior surfaces with gouges, alongside proper usage of, and benefits of scrapers, and right or left-handed approach.
Beginning-Advanced finer points of sharpening, and direct exterior application with green & dry stock using the bowl & spindle gouge, and scrapers:
Class Exercise & Application Project
Tear-Out Free, Classic Open Form Bowl Exterior.
Utilize shear scraping techniques with gouges, scrapers, and learn the benefits of proper tool selection & application.
Cutting fine detail, tear-out free interiors, seeing fine form, and using gouges with corresponding preferred shapes & angles.
Beginning-Advanced finer points of sharpening, and direct hollowing application with green & dry stock using the bowl gouge.
Class Exercise & Application Project
Tear-Out Free, Classic Open Form Bowl Interior & finished piece
Utilize a Fine burnish with gouges, and the benefits of proper tool selection & application to complete a fine open form with tear-out free surfaces.
Cutting tear-out free exterior surfaces with the skew chisel & spindle gouge alongside proper body mechanics, usage, and benefits of either right or left-handed approach.
Beginning-Advanced finer points of sharpening, and direct exterior application with green & dry stock using the skew chisel & spindle gouges.
Class Exercise & Application Project
Tear-Out Free, End Grain Box Exterior
Utilize a fine burnish, and shear cut with the skew chisel, or spindle gouge for scraping and the benefits of proper tool selection & application.
Cutting tear-out free interior surfaces with modified gouges and scrapers, alongside proper body mechanics, usage, and benefits of either right or left-handed approach.
Beginning-Advanced finer points of sharpening, and direct interior application with green & dry stock using modified gouges, and scrapers
Class Exercise & Application Project
Tear-Out Free, End Grain Box interior
Utilize a fine burnish, shear cut, and scrape with modified gouges and scrapers
To turn a fine end-grain interior, and understand the benefits of proper tool selection & application.
Chosen Final project will be created by way of direction & vision student has as a maker with options to be made during initial stages of class exercises.
Students can choose one of the following for their Final Project.
Matt Monaco
monacobowls.com
E-Learning & Projects with Fine Woodworking
https://courses.finewoodworking.com/turning-matt-monaco
Fine Woodworking Ambassador & Contributor
https://www.finewoodworking.com/2020/09/21/announcing-fww-ambassadors
Registration information:
Our workshop is located in beautiful Provo, Utah, just 40 minutes south of Salt Lake City.
Upon registering for a class, we will send you a packet containing helpful information when planning your trip, including hotels near us and other fun things to do during your visit to Utah.
In the event of cancellation:
We reserve the right to cancel workshops up to 4 weeks prior to the class date. In the event of a workshop cancellation, full tuition will be refunded. Please do not make airline reservations more than 4 weeks prior to the first day of class as we do not reimburse for any travel expenses incurred.
Student Cancellation:
Cancellations less than 6 weeks prior to the start of class will be subject to a 50% cancellation fee.
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